Integration monitor is a daily Latvian press digest on ethnic minority and society integration issues. The Monitor reviews the biggest Latvian dailies: Diena, Latvijas Avize, Neatkariga (in Latvian language), Vesti Segodnya (in Russian language). In specific cases other information sources are used. Latvian Centre for Human Rights is not responsible for information published by the media.

• Riga City Councils decision to ban all the events on 16 March will be appealed

Newspapers report that organisations and persons who submitted applications to hold events on 16 March are planning to appeal the decision of the Riga City Council to ban all the events in the court. Juris Jansons, recently approved for the post of the Ombudsman, refused to comment the Council’s decision, considering that the decision can be evaluated only after the court’s ruling. The Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis, in his turn, stated that 16 March (unofficial commemoration day of Latvian Waffen SS legionnaires) and 9 May (Victory over the Nazi Germany Day) should not be celebrated at all in Latvia because these dates split the society.

Newspapers report that organisations and persons who submitted applications to hold events on 16 March are planning to appeal the decision of the Riga City Council to ban all the events in the court. Juris Jansons, recently approved for the post of the Ombudsman, refused to comment the Councils decision, considering that the decision can be evaluated only after the courts ruling. The Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis, in his turn, stated that 16 March (unofficial commemoration day of Latvian Waffen SS legionnaires) and 9 May (Victory over the Nazi Germany Day) should not be celebrated at all in Latvia because these dates split the society. Chas, Telegraf, Latvijas Avize, Neatkariga